JB/169/049/001

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If the information I have received
is true, there exists at present close to the under
your Lordships eye Admiralty a nest of Sharpers from whose practises
if not put a stop to, the reputation of that branch
of his Majesty's service which is in within your
Lordships department may receive a very
essential prejudice. The principals are
two women of the names of Townson and
Steele, who keep a grocer's shop directly opposite
the Admiralty. where originally essence
of These people pretend to sell
places in your Lordship's gift, and in order
to give colour to their pretences, they
point out a girl the daughter of one of them
who, they have the impudence to insinuate,
is about to on the point of occupying such a station about
your Lordship's person, as according
to the notions commonly entertained of female
influence might naturally enough be expected
to give more than a due weight to any applications
she might choose to make. I have
heard

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	049	Info in main headings field	asand
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 386, vol. 3; draft	ID Number	56869
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